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Body Weather Workshop BerlinFrom Touch to Dance
7 - 8 November 2026
with
Frank van de Ven (BW Amsterdam)
Body Weather is a comprehensive training and performance practice that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are conceived not as fixed and separate entities but as constantly changing - just like the weather. Weather is seen as a complex system of forces and influences coursing through and beyond bodies and the world.
The term & philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980's by dancer Min Tanaka and further developed by Laboratories worldwide. Frank van de Ven was a member of Tanaka’s Maijuku Performance Company in Japan, from 1983-1991. With Katerina Bakatsaki he founded Body Weather Amsterdam, a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to the Body/Landscape projects conducted worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with Milos Sejn (Academy of Art and Design, Prague, Czech Republic), connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture. For more info see https://bodyweatheramsterdam.nl/
After a thorough training and work with a partner on breathing, stretching, alignment and the notion of ‘relaxation’ in the morning, we focus on how developing multiple qualities of touch and being touched can expand one’s movement skills and vocabulary. Touch makes us aware of the world inside and outside of us. To touch is to be touched. After a clear set-up we will expand what we find into Improvisation.
As a training, Body Weather is of relevance to anyone interested in exploring the body and physical presence and this workshop is suited to dance, theatre and movement practitioners and artists of various backgrounds.
Studio : Garage Studio - Herzbergstr 40-43 Lichtenberg Berlin
Dates : Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026
Time : 10h-16.30h
Workshop fee: €130 - concession €110
Info and reservations Valery Renay [email protected]
Tel: +49 176 47032367
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